Durham angler Sam Bland had an interesting trip recently. Taking the mainline train to Newcastle with all of his gear he ended up at South Gosforth having got on the…
A bit of an outside swell on the sea over the last few days did manage to bring a few cod inshore from most of the marks along the North…
Top Grimsby match angler Adie Cooper was unstoppable in the Skegness Pier Angling Club (SPAC) Species Hunt, held in perfect conditions at Trunch Lane. The format was 10 points for…
Shore angling has been quiet lately with few club matches being held, most clubs are now waiting until the end of May for their summer season to start. The rivers…
Summer species have started to show from local beaches, resulting in good catches for Skegness Pier Angling Club (SPAC) members. Croxton’s Dave Burr has been in scintillating form of late,…
As with previous weeks there are lots of small, undersize fish along the local shoreline to keep anglers occupied. Mostly, they are small poor conditioned dabs which seem to be…
Lots of smaller species are dominating shore angling at present with just the odd chance of a bigger spring flounder or whiting among them. Â Fishing down the pier sides for…
After an early, warm start to the spring, local commercial boats out of Hartlepool report mackerel are now only around 6 miles offshore, and one local skipper qoutes “thornback rays…
Last week’s comments regarding the possibility of being too early to travel to the west coast for thornback rays and dogfish might have been slightly unnecessary as they are already…
A bit of a northerly sea early last week, in conjunction with some of the biggest tides of the year, brought some cod inshore but not in the numbers that…